Artist: Anthony Goicolea
(Cuban-American, b. 1971)
Anthony Goicolea is a first-generation Cuban American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work explores themes of personal history and identity, cultural tradition and heritage, and alienation and displacement. Goicolea works in a variety of mediums including photography, sculpture, video and drawings but is best known for his powerful, and often unsettling, staged photograhic and video works. Goicolea holds a BA in Art History and BFA in Drawing and Painting, both from the University of Georgia, Athens, and an MFA in Sculpture and Photography from the Pratt Institute of Art, New York. Goicolea's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, including those at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Postmasters Gallery, New York, among others. His work can be found in such major public collections as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Brooklyn Museum.
